tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post5632683843047064931..comments2024-02-10T19:58:20.327+00:00Comments on Stuck in a Book: Making HumansStuckInABookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-49512923345096388412007-07-03T03:48:00.000+01:002007-07-03T03:48:00.000+01:00I've read a bio.of Mansfield - some time ago, so p...I've read a bio.of Mansfield - some time ago, so probably not the same book. I liked the diary better. I'm trying to remember what else I read that was edited by Murry - but comparing two of the books, it seemed he edited her life to his likes (omitting certain aspects of her life). I did wonder if he was controlling of her life (after she became ill). <BR/><BR/> Your Edward Hopper postcard! We went to see an enormous exhibit of his work that is currently at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. You might even be able to read/see something about it online (sorry I don't have the url at hand). <BR/> NancyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-54961379723640421932007-07-02T14:17:00.000+01:002007-07-02T14:17:00.000+01:00Biographies are really curious, aren't they. How ...Biographies are really curious, aren't they. How can anyone really know someone else, and then know someone you've never even met. I wonder how much is fact and how much is conjecture. I suppose if you read enough of the author's writings you must get a sense. I need to finish Mansfield's Journal and then I do plan on reading the Tomalin bio this summer as well. Somehow from the very little that I know so far, I am not all that surprised that you say that she didn't seem really that pleasant. I haven't read a lot of biographical material on V. Woolf, but she sort of didn't seem really pleasant either (correct me if I'm wrong as this is just the feeling I get!). Maybe there is something about having genius--you can't afford to be nice. I guess you don't have to necessarily like an author to appreciate their work, but it is still interesting reading about them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-86308685391665105172007-07-02T02:19:00.000+01:002007-07-02T02:19:00.000+01:00I haven't read the Mansfield bio, but I have read ...I haven't read the Mansfield bio, but I have read Tomalin's bios of Samuel Pepys and Thomas Hardy, and both were remarkably good. Her Pepys comes so fully alive that when his death arrives, it's like a blow. And while Hardy remains a bit elusive, she gives a very convincing sense that he was simply like that, utltimately unavailable (or unfathomable) even to friends. <BR/><BR/>So I have enough faith in Tomalin's abilities and insight to wonder if the missing Mansfield is actually appropriate? Is that just the way she was?Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.com